12 steps of the promising candidate turned bad interviewer

During the hiring process, you spend countless hours thumbing through resumes. When you find a candidate that’s ultra-promising, especially for a tough to fill position, it’s as if the clouds have parted and little birdies have provided you with the holy grail of candidates. It’s as if the world is right again and nothing could ever go wrong… Until they bomb their interview.

Here are the 12 steps of a very promising candidate turned horrible, terrible, no good, very bad interviewer:

1. Finally! All of your hard work has paid off. You could shout from the rooftops – You’ve found them, you’ve found them!

2. They arrive on interview day and you’re full of hope and anticipation, eager to see how your dream candidate is going to change the way you view the world forever.

3. Now, game face. It’s interview time.

4. Off to a good start – Looking sharp, good hand shake. I like where this is going.

5. Waaaaitaminute… Did they think I wanted to know their life story when I asked them to tell me about themselves? Um, no.

6. Wow, they’re really getting into some detail here… Oh man, did I lock the back door this morning?